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Population and Housing Census of Bhutan 2005

Bhutan, 2005
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Reference ID
BTN_2005_PHC_v01_M
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Office of the Census Commissioner
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Nov 14, 2011
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Sector of employment (q21cb)

Data file: pop_edu_labor_fer (both files provide cases)

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 160
End: 161
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Employment and Income
Literal question
Sector of Employment
Categories
Value Category
1 Agriculture
2 Mining/Quarring
3 Manufacturing
4 Electricity/gas/water
5 Construction
6 Retail/Wholesale Trade
7 Hotel/Restaurant
8 Transport/Communication
9 Finance/Insurance
10 Public administration/security
11 Education
12 Health services
13 Others
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
The major economic sectors have been provided in the column which is as follows:-
[01] Agriculture/Forestry
[02] Mining/Quarrying
[03] Manufacturing
[04] Electricity/gas/water
[05] Construction
[06] Retail/Wholesale trade/Repair and maintenance
[07] Hotel/Restaurant
[08] Transport/Communication and storage
[09] Finance/Insurance/ Real Estate
[10] Public Administration/Security
[11] Education
[12] Health and social services
[13] Others (Specify) - For e.g. (13) Livestock or (13) Weaving

Ask the economic sector in which the person is currently employed and enter the code provided against the sector. For example, all persons working as drivers in any organization or agencies should be included as working in the transport and communication sector.

Also, all persons working in the hospitals, BHUs, health clinics, etc., dealing directly with treatment and care of both human and animal patients and the sick, will fall under health sector. Whereas those persons working in the health administration and administration support services should be included in public administration/security sector.

Similarly, this applies to all the persons working in the schools and institutes and dealing directly with students/trainees should be classified under education.

Description

Definition
Sector of Employment refers to the nature of work done by the institution or the work place or enterprise where the person works
Universe
Persons age 15 and over
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